Replacing text with CSS is not something I use often, but there are some specific cases where it comes in handy. If you have the ability to change text on the server-side, I always recommend that first. CSS text replacement should be a last resort, as that is not what CSS is intended for.

If you’re working within the limitations of a CMS, or you don’t have the ability to change your markup, CSS text replacement might be your only option.

There are a few ways to handle it. Let’s walk through the options, and explain how they work, and why other methods fail.

“When we make changes to a clients’ website, they often don’t see the changes right away. This is because their browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, etc.) has cached web pages. When a browser caches a web page, it stores a local copy on the visitor’s computer. This speeds up the page load time so the visitor can view the information faster when they visit the page again.”

If you don’t immediately see changes made to the website, you may have to go the extra step of clearing your browser cache and cookies in addition to refreshing your web page.

We have recently setup CodeGuard for one of our clients, and we’re in the process of setting up numerous sites on the CodeGuard platform. Getting the files adding for backup was as easy as providing FTP credentials. Backing up the database, however, proved to be a bit more difficult.

If you’re having trouble setting up database backups for CodeGuard on a GoDaddy shared hosting plan, it’s likely due to the following configuration option.

If you’ve ever wondered how to customize a mailto: link, getting it to include your own subject line, list of recipients, cc or bcc someone, and pre-populate a message in the email body… look no further.

You might be wondering how Facebook choses which thumbnail images to show when someone shares a link on Facebook. It might seem random, but there is a way for you to control which images Facebook uses.

Facebook’s Open Graph allows you to add <meta> tags to the <head> section of your site. One of these <meta> tags is the og:image tag. It will look something like this: